Issue | #11 |
Published | September 1960 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in April 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Sporr |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (March 1970); in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
Characters | Sporr |
Synopsis | A scientist moves into Dr. Frankenstein's castle to set up his experimental growth ray. When he trains it upon an amoeba, the frightened villagers burst in, and seeing the equipment, think he is going to bring ruin down upon them and hustle him off to the town jail. With no one to shut off the growth machine, the amoeba grows to huge size and smashes out of the castle to menace the village. The scientist escapes his jail cell and uses his labcoat soaked with sugar to lure Sporr into a quicksand pit. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (March 1970); in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
Characters | Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne |
Synopsis | The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #13 (October 1952) |
Synopsis | 150 Martian flying saucers land on Earth, but do nothing after landing. Since no pilots emerge the natives transport the craft to military bases where their hulls are experimented upon, but cannot be penetrated. At a prearranged signal, all the saucers open a port. The curious scientists and military men enter, but discover no pilot or instrumentation. After they leave, the saucers return to Mars secure in the knowledge that was absorbed from their minds that Earth is no threat to them. The saucers themselves are the Martians. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
Characters | Igor |
Synopsis | A hypnotist uses his power to rob a movie theatre, but accidentally hypnotizes himself and forgets the whole plan. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Retold in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #8 (January 1962) as "The Eyes of Edward Morgo" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Script tentatively credited to Stan Lee on the basis of his signature on the retelling. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
Characters | Dr. Kermanki |
Synopsis | A prisoner escapes and uses a time machine to travel into the past, but he accidentally kills his own ancester, erasing himself. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |